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Franco Indovina is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director Italien born on 1 january 1932 at Palermo (Italie)

Franco Indovina

Franco Indovina
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Nationality Italie
Birth 1 january 1932 at Palermo (Italie)
Death 5 may 1972 (at 40 years)

Franco Indovina (1932 – 4 May 1972) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. In 1959, he was assistant of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of L'Avventura. He directed six films between 1965 and 1971.

He died when Alitalia Flight 112 crashed on approach to Palermo. His 1967 film Lo scatenato was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

Biography

Après ses études, Franco Indovina commence sa carrière professionnelle au théâtre, comme assistant de Luchino Visconti, avant d'aborder le cinéma en 1959. Il est l'un des assistants réalisateurs de Michelangelo Antonioni pour ses 3 films successifs L'Avventura, La Nuit, L'Eclipse, de Francesco Rosi pour Salvatore Giuliano et Vittorio De Sica pour Mariage à l'italienne.

Il passe à la mise en scène en 1965 et réalise et coscénarise Menage all'italiana, avec Ugo Tognazzi dans le rôle principal, Dalida pour sa 8e apparition sur grand écran et une musique composée par Ennio Morricone. Dans la foulée, il signe Latin lover, l'un des 3 segments du film Les Trois Visages (I tre volti), dont l'héroïne est la princesse Soraya. Les 2 autres segments sont l'œuvre de Michelangelo Antonioni
et Mauro Bolognini.

Deux années plus tard, il tourne la comédie Lo scatenato, dont il a coécrit le scénario avec Tonino Guerra, jouée notamment par Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer. La même année, il est l'auteur du segment L'Ère préhistorique de la comédie dramatique composée de 6 sketches Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde et dont les 5 autres réalisateurs sont Claude Autant-Lara (segment Aujourd'hui), Mauro Bolognini (segment Nuits romaines), Philippe de Broca (segment Mademoiselle Mimi), Jean-Luc Godard (segment Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000) et Michael Pfleghar (segment La belle époque).

En 1970, Le Voyeur (Giochi particolari), produit par lui et coscénarisé à nouveau avec Tonino Guerra, dont les rôles principaux sont tenus par Timothy Dalton, Virna Lisi, Marcello Mastroianni, est sa 5e réalisation.

Tre nel mille, son ultime film sort dans les salles italiennes le 6 février 1971.

Il a tenu un modeste rôle dans la série télévisée L'Odyssée, l'adaptation, par Franco Rossi, du poème épique d'Homère.

Le 5 mai 1972, Franco Indovina est l'une des 115 victimes de l'accident d'avion du vol AZ 112 de la compagnie Alitalia, parti de Rome à destination de Palerme. L'avion, un Douglas DC-8, s'est écrasé contre le mont Longa à 5 km de son aéroport d'arrivée.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Franco Indovina (11 films)

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Director

The Voyeur
The Voyeur (1970)
, 1h38
Directed by Franco Indovina
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Timothy Dalton, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi
Rating64% 3.2260653.2260653.2260653.2260653.226065
Un mari s'ennuyant dans son mariage et dans sa vie, incite sa femme à prendre un amant.
Catch As Catch Can, 1h35
Directed by Franco Indovina
Genres Comedy
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Massimo Serato, Gila Golan, Carmelo Bene, Claudio Gora
Rating60% 3.000493.000493.000493.000493.00049
Bob is a famous actor of various advertising, but slowly begins to go crazy. In fact, he seems to be haunted by normal animals that do not take kindly. A bull for example, Bob throws in a river, while the mice gnaw a rope that held him suspended from a helicopter to shoot a commercial. When Bob refuses to turn advertising with other animals as extras, it is immediately fired. On the verge of despair, enters an ordinary fly, which begins to haunt the lives of the poor Bob who tries to kill her in every way, to no avail. When the fly disappears, Bob also continues to hear the annoying buzzing, beating their hands everywhere like a real fool.
The Three Faces, 1h55
Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Franco Indovina, Michelangelo Antonioni
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Dino De Laurentiis, Richard Harris, José Luis de Vilallonga, Nando Angelini, Goffredo Alessandrini
Rating60% 3.048113.048113.048113.048113.04811
Réalisation : Michelangelo Antonioni. Scénario : Tullio Pinelli.

Scriptwriter

The Voyeur
The Voyeur (1970)
, 1h38
Directed by Franco Indovina
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Timothy Dalton, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2260653.2260653.2260653.2260653.226065
Un mari s'ennuyant dans son mariage et dans sa vie, incite sa femme à prendre un amant.
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Directed by Ugo Tognazzi
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Gastone Moschin, Franco Fabrizi, Francesco Giacobini
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.1205153.1205153.1205153.1205153.120515
Oscar (Ugo Tognazzi) is a driver whom to stay in the good graces of his master, a well-known businessman known as the "Lawyer" (Gastone Moschin), assumes the responsibility of a serious car accident, with 15 deaths, caused by the "Lawyer".
Catch As Catch Can, 1h35
Directed by Franco Indovina
Genres Comedy
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Massimo Serato, Gila Golan, Carmelo Bene, Claudio Gora
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.000493.000493.000493.000493.00049
Bob is a famous actor of various advertising, but slowly begins to go crazy. In fact, he seems to be haunted by normal animals that do not take kindly. A bull for example, Bob throws in a river, while the mice gnaw a rope that held him suspended from a helicopter to shoot a commercial. When Bob refuses to turn advertising with other animals as extras, it is immediately fired. On the verge of despair, enters an ordinary fly, which begins to haunt the lives of the poor Bob who tries to kill her in every way, to no avail. When the fly disappears, Bob also continues to hear the annoying buzzing, beating their hands everywhere like a real fool.
The Three Faces, 1h55
Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Franco Indovina, Michelangelo Antonioni
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Dino De Laurentiis, Richard Harris, José Luis de Vilallonga, Nando Angelini, Goffredo Alessandrini
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.048113.048113.048113.048113.04811
Réalisation : Michelangelo Antonioni. Scénario : Tullio Pinelli.

Producer

The Voyeur
The Voyeur (1970)
, 1h38
Directed by Franco Indovina
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Timothy Dalton, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2260653.2260653.2260653.2260653.226065
Un mari s'ennuyant dans son mariage et dans sa vie, incite sa femme à prendre un amant.

Director

Marriage Italian Style, 1h42
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Tecla Scarano, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating74% 3.705013.705013.705013.705013.70501
It tells the World War II era story of a cynical, successful businessman named Domenico (Mastroianni), who, after meeting a naive country girl, Filumena (Loren), one night in a Neapolitan brothel, keeps frequenting her for years in an on-off relationship (as she continues working as a prostitute). He eventually takes her in his house as a semi-official mistress under the pretense that she take care of his ailing, senile mother. After having fallen for a younger, prettier girl and having planned to marry her, he finds himself cornered when Filumena feigns illness and "on her deathbed", asks to be married to him. Thinking she'll be dead in a matter of hours and that the 'marriage' won't even be registered, he agrees. After having been proclaimed his legal bride, the shrewd and resourceful Filumena drops the charade and reveals to have put up the show for the one child she bore from him (she gave birth to three sons but Domenico always maintained to have fathered none). Domenico tries to cajole her into telling him which one is his but she stalwartly refuses, telling him that sons can't be picked and chosen and that he has to be the father of all three. It stars Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Vito Moricone.
Salvatore Giuliano, 1h47
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Nando Cicero, Francesco Rosi
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating72% 3.6492353.6492353.6492353.6492353.649235
Juillet 1950. Le cadavre du bandit sicilien Salvatore Giuliano est découvert dans la cour d'une maison de Castelvetrano. Un commissaire y dresse un bref constat, des journalistes recueillent quelques renseignements. Plus tard, son corps est exposé à Montelepre, sa commune natale ; la foule vient s'y recueillir, sa mère le pleure...
L'Eclisse
L'Eclisse (1962)
, 1h58
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner, Lilla Brignone, Rosanna Rory
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating77% 3.8502553.8502553.8502553.8502553.850255
At dawn on Monday 10 July 1961, a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), breaks off her relationship with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) in his apartment in the EUR residential district of Rome, following a long night of conversation. Riccardo tries to persuade her to stay, saying he wants to make her happy, but she turns out the lights in his apartment, tells him she no longer loves him, and leaves. As she walks the deserted early-morning streets past the EUR water tower, Riccardo catches up and walks with her through a wooded area to her apartment building at 307 Viale dell'Umanesimo, where they say their final goodbyes.